HD Sentinal Pro on Hyper-V Server

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PigLover

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I was playing around with HD Sentinal Pro to check the health of the various SSDs I have installed. I was frustrated with the fact that I didn't have such a nice tool for use on the Hyper-V server nodes in my little lab.

After googling around I found a gem: HD Sentinal Pro actually installs and runs GREAT on Hyper-V server. Even though the GUI drivers don't exist it still works. Just get the install file, RDP to the Hyper-V server node and run the installer from the command tool. It installs and appear to work GREAT (and yeah - the 8x 220GB Sandisk SSDs on that system are showing near perfect with over 1000 days expected life...).
 
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Patrick

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There are actually quite a few tools that work like that in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 for some reason.
 

PigLover

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Too bad Windows Control Panel (or at least the hardware manager module) isn't one of them :(